Storage Units and Trailers

28 July 2017

Assuming that boxes would eventually be filled, we needed a storage unit and a trailer to put them in. We decided to set aside our optimism and focus on a 10 foot by 10 foot storage unit. We could always move to a smaller unit in the same complex if we were wrong, and after we take another pass at what remains of our belongings. Because we had pictures and papers and such we wanted the unit to not be subject to the worst of summer heat and monsoons, as the last unit had been. Once we started looking for storage unit places we started seeing them everywhere.

We finally settled on an indoor place with a freight elevator down in Gilbert. It was pretty new and clean, and while I couldn't say it was cool, it was not steaming hot like it was outside. It was a few minutes farther from the house than I had hoped, but it was reasonably priced and checked most of the other boxes. In addition, it was on the second floor, so instead of a 7 or 8 foot ceiling it was more like 12. That would become important.

We followed the same approach with the trailer. Having never done a one way moving rental like this before we went with Uhaul. Again we hemmed and hawed and finally settled on the largest trailer they had, 12 foot long. The thought of packing the trailer the night before and finding out it was too small was just too painful to contemplate.

So we had a week to pack Chelsea's life into a 12 foot trailer, and hopefully most of ours into the 10 foot storage unit. Well, we were maybe half right.

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